“Rather than throwing good money after bad, the RNC should shift its strategy and its resources to convince voters not to give Hillary Clinton the “blank check” of a Democrat-controlled Congress to advance her big government agenda”, they write.
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Trump, speaking to Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly on “The O’Reilly Factor” said the account isn’t true, but if it were, he would stop fundraising for Republicans.
“Yes, I have. He just put out a press release”.
In the USA, more than seventy Republicans have signed a letter to the party’s National Committee head urging him to stop helping Donald Trump’s campaign.
Sean Spicer, the RNC’s chief strategist, denied on Twitter that Preibus threatened to reallocated resources from the presidential campaign to down-ballot races like House and Senate contests, as Time reported.
Trump is responding to a Time magazine story that said RNC Chairman Reince Priebus had told Trump he’d shift resources unless Trump’s poll numbers improved, after Trump at first declined to endorse the Republican primary bid of House Speaker Paul Ryan in his Wisconsin district.
“All I have to do is stop funding the Republican Party”, the billionaire said.
According to the TIME article, Priebus warned Trump last week that “his campaign seemed to be headed toward failure and that changes were needed to get back on track”, adding that Priebus urged Trump for months to professionalize his operations and campaign – or else.
They said Mr Trump’s “divisiveness” and “inadequacy” gambled suffocating the gathering in November’s race.
Priebus pointed out that if GOP senators don’t win reelection, the outcome will be worse for Trump because his administration would have to deal with a Democratic Senate.
According to Andrew Weinstein, a prominent anti-Trump Republican who helped organize the letter, it comes from “people who want the party to protect its majorities in the Senate and the House”.
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So far, the letter has been signed by a number of key former party staff members and officials.
